Wilson Ramos Activated off DL
The Buffalo is back. Catcher, Wilson Ramos has been activated off the Disabled list and will play and start in his second game of the season after needing to have surgery on his left hand to remove the hamate bone. He suffered the injury on opening day and had the surgery a day later. Excitement has been building for the return of the Buffalo in Washington D.C. as he has played in rehab games in the last four days which resulted in him hitting three home runs over that span, including catching nine innings for Class AA Harrisburg on Monday.
Ramos will start today and bat fifth in the order against former Nationals pitcher Dan Haren, who he caught for all of last year, so no one knows Haren better than him.
Ramos is one of the most intriguing hitters the Nationals have coming back off the disable list in that they aren’t really sure what they are going to get. There has been many talks about Wilson Ramos that end with “if he could just stay healthy” and the truth of the matter is that Wilson could be one of the best power hitting catchers in the league if he could stay healthy.
Since his first full starting season where he started and played in 113 games and hit 15 home runs the Nationals catcher has spent more time on the disable list than any other player and has actually spent more time on the disable list than on the field. Ramos would go onto play in just 25 games in 2012 and 78 last year. The most promising part about Wilson Ramos is if he does stay healthy all of the damage he could do. In just 78 games last year he went on to hit 16 home runs, which if he played 140 games like most starting catchers do he would of ended up with 29 home runs which would of led all catchers in the MLB with the next closes being Matt Wieters of the Baltimore Orioles, who had 22.
Wilson Ramos is one the most promising young catchers in baseball and if he can stay healthy that potential that he has can turn into something special that can only help the Nationals in the future for their hunt for a World Series.
